The clock is ticking on Timex s iconic Connecticut headquarters

Get the Full StoryThe watch company is moving out of its time-telling building, and demolition may be looming. Can a small but passionate group save it?

When it opened in 2001, watchmaker Timex s new headquarters building in Middlebury, Connecticut, was an architectural wonder. Its all-glass walls and open floor plan put the entire 275-person company in one big, light-filled workspace, covered by a swooping arched roof. It was a radical embrace of the ideals of openness, collaboration, and anti-hierarchical social interaction. On top of all this, the award-winning building had one additional and unique feature: a hole in the top that shines sunlight down on an ancient time-marking device known as a meridian line. Covering the building at the time, Fast Company noted the building itself is a watch.

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